Ashik J M

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

14+ years in scalable platform infrastructure
Led successful datacenter migration with zero downtime
Designed cost-saving SaaS tools saving $1 million annually

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps expert with extensive experience in scalable systems and automation.

Contact

ashikjm@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Cloud InfrastructurePlatform EngineeringKubernetes InfrastructureDevopsCost ManagementMonitoringInfrastructure AutomationContainerizationOperations EngineeringAutomationInfrastructure ManagementNetwork ManagementDatabase ManagementSystem Administration

Other Skills

Amazon EC2AnsibleApacheDHCPDockerGitGolangISC KEAIaaSJenkinsKanikoKubernetesKubevirtKyvernoLinux

About

Engineering Manager and DevOps leader with 14+ years of experience designing and operating scalableplatform infrastructure, cloud-native automation, and Kubernetes ecosystems. Active CNCF communitymember leading a regional chapter with chapter administrator responsibilities.

Experience

Cloudera

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

Lead the Platform team delivering IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions supporting internal
engineering and support teams, built on over 1,500 baremetal servers across multiple
datacenters.
Lead part of the Platform Experience team, building layers that deliver a consistent experience
across public clouds for development teams

IaaSPaaSSaaSbaremetal serversdatacentersCloud Infrastructure+1

Staff DevOps Engineer

May 2020 – Aug 2023 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Architect and contribute to building a multi-datacenter Kubernetes infrastructure integrated
with Kubevirt to support VM and container workloads; presented architecture and scaling
strategies at CNCF conferences at regional, national, and global levels.
Build and manage large, shared Kubernetes clusters, performing policy enforcement (Kyverno),
cleanup, upgrades, and multi-team resource management.
Developed dynamic baremetal and Kubernetes provisioning capabilities enabling rapid, on-
demand environment setups.
Headed datacenter migration of a private cloud environment built on 700+ baremetal servers;
coordinated cross-organization verticals and teams to migrate with zero downtime or impact,
leveraging a small landing zone—effort widely appreciated across leadership levels.
Designed and helped build the SaaS public cloud cost management tool tailored to Cloudera's
engineering needs, delivering an annual savings of approximately $1 million.

KubernetesKubevirtpolicy enforcementKyvernomulti-team resource managementbaremetal provisioning+4

Instart

DevOps Engineer

Mar 2017 – May 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Lifecycle management of hybrid CDN infra distributed ~25 PoPs. Infra contains colocated baremetals and cloud providers.
Ensure deployment of applications to hundreds of edge servers without customer impact.
Build and maintain kubernetes based hybrid cloud system for Instart.
Automated deployment of platform applications using Jenkins.
Research and implementation of best practices in Kubernetes world.
Major Projects:
1. Metric collection and monitoring of kubernetes
Collection of metrics emitted by applications in kubernetes and providing PoP local and global views. Metric gateways were implemented and metrics were shipped to a central location. Used cortex to have a stable central metric collection system.
2. Automatic Cloud Infra deployment
Jenkins pipeline to automate the infra deployment to cloud using Terraform. Commits to the git repo containing Terraform config would be deployed to production automatically once the gate(terraform plan) and code review is successful.
3. Implement Kaniko for Docker builds
Docker builds were using the docker socket of the worker nodes in kubernetes and nomad. This approach was wrong at various levels. Implemented Kaniko which lets one create docker images without the use of the docker socket in the host.

hybrid CDNKubernetesJenkinsTerraformmetric collectionDevOps+1

Flipkart

Operations Engineer

Jun 2014 – Feb 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

Worked with dev teams and did operability reviews to ensure efficiency/reduce latency/availability in productions systems in live traffic path
Evaluation and benchmarking of technologies for adoption in our ecosystem like s3fs, galera, salt, MySQL..
Automation of day to day operational tasks like OS provisioning, MySQL cluster migration..
As part of Cloud Platform Team, worked on automating the baremetal lifecycle on a large scale (~15K baremetals)
Major Projects:
1. Baremetal LifeCycle Management Service
This service intends to manage the entire lifecycle of a baremetal from being racked to serving as a mothership and back to being decommissioned at EOL. This is implemented completely in Golang. The tool also takes care of maintenance workflow automation and also has provision to write custom workflows on the go.
2. DHCP High-Availability
This ensures DHCP High-Availability. Implemented ISC KEA which has the capability of storing leases/hosts entries in a DB. This property was leveraged to both scale and make it highly available.
3. MySQL Migration Tool
A tool to setup MySQL clusters written in Python. This allows users to create any topology and also to create any number of nodes in a cluster. Backup configuration is also an option in the tool.

operability reviewsautomationMySQLbaremetal lifecycle managementOperations EngineeringAutomation

Directi

Server Administrator

Oct 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Server Administrator for Linux/Windows shared hosting servers and the VPS/Dedicated servers for customers
Optimizing Apache/MySQL installations for faster response time
Server Hardening/Monitoring for Web Hosting/Mail Hosting servers including periodical auditing
Automating day-to-day tasks (shell/python)

LinuxApacheMySQLautomationSystem Administration